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Saturday Night Live was very funny this weekend, and everyone seems rightly surprised about that, but they also seem very surprised that Blake Lively did a decent job, which seems unfair to me. Being a good SNL host is probably more about having a great, I'll-tackle-anything attitude than it is about having actual talent, and Blake Lively always seems like an energetic, relentlessly fun and likable girl when she doesn't have her Serena van der Woodsen Thanksgiving catsuit on, so I figured she'd do a good job. And she did, in what little screen time they (wisely) relegated her to. She may be a pretty blonde lady, but let's not January Jones her for it, OK? That is some kind of profiling and it is probably offensive! But I digress -- on to the best sketches of the night!
You may or may not know what a Juggalo is -- and believe me, this sketch is much, much funnier if you do -- but even if you don't, the Kickspit Underground Rock Festival is easily one of the funniest sketches in recent memory, ninjas. I happen to know a lot of people named Dan, and they have all been officially renamed "Ass Dan" against their will and probably my best interest because of this amazing thing:
"Gossip Girl: Staten Island" also made me laugh a lot, though I was worried at first that it would be yet another Jersey Shore parody. In any case "Heels! Heels!" is very funny, and if you live on the east coast you also know that it is very, very true:
This probably makes me an idiot racist comedy supporter, but Virginiaca still makes me laugh, even without ScarJo, who really owns the bit. Anyway, Serena did her best, and I thought she was funny ("Ooh, mama, these chips are all kindsa tangy!"). At the very least, she committed herself to it like a real actress, unlike some Betty Drapers I know:
And my personal favorite of the night, the unabashedly bizarre Will Forte "Po-tay-toe chip!" sketch. It reminded me of that crazy doctor character Will Ferrell used to do, the one who was obsessed with palominos and once diagnosed Molly Shannon's son as a witch? Anyway, it was great, and another fine showing from Blake Lively:
The Salahi cold open, the ladies bowling, the Rihanna Digital Short (though I know most people loved that thing) and especially the Tiger Woods sketch didn't do anything for me, but overall, great job, show! And great job Blake Lively, though that doesn't surprise me.
Your thoughts on this week's show? Discuss below!
"Gossip Girl: Staten Island" also made me laugh a lot, though I was worried at first that it would be yet another Jersey Shore parody. In any case "Heels! Heels!" is very funny, and if you live on the east coast you also know that it is very, very true:
This probably makes me an idiot racist comedy supporter, but Virginiaca still makes me laugh, even without ScarJo, who really owns the bit. Anyway, Serena did her best, and I thought she was funny ("Ooh, mama, these chips are all kindsa tangy!"). At the very least, she committed herself to it like a real actress, unlike some Betty Drapers I know:
And my personal favorite of the night, the unabashedly bizarre Will Forte "Po-tay-toe chip!" sketch. It reminded me of that crazy doctor character Will Ferrell used to do, the one who was obsessed with palominos and once diagnosed Molly Shannon's son as a witch? Anyway, it was great, and another fine showing from Blake Lively:
The Salahi cold open, the ladies bowling, the Rihanna Digital Short (though I know most people loved that thing) and especially the Tiger Woods sketch didn't do anything for me, but overall, great job, show! And great job Blake Lively, though that doesn't surprise me.
Your thoughts on this week's show? Discuss below!
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Wow, whoever wrote this review either has no taste or is a tool for Lorne Michael. This episode was awful except for the ESPN skit. Enough of the young starlets with little or no talent! Please get Bryan Cranston (Malcom in Middle/Breaking Bad) to host or someone of his experience. And next we get Taylor Lautner - are things so bad at NBC that they are going after the vapid CW crowd or the easily amused Disney crowd? Watch, Hannah Montana will host soon enough. This show has officially jumped the shark.
Heh, talk about SNL "jumping the shark" overlooks its extreme swings in quality throughout its history. SNL must be on its eighth shark or more by now.
Many of the greatest SNL sketches don't even feature the host so i don't have a problem with random hosts. This episode was HILARIOUS. The potato chip skit was just as weird and awesome as some early SNL (which everyone always says was SO MUCH FUNNIER than anything new but that is really easy to claim when all you've seen of past casts is their "best of" reels) The vagisil skit was funny and clever for potty humor but nothing we haven't seen before. Jason Sudeikis was the big player this weekend and I think he hit it out of the park.
Wow, someone thought the Vagisil/ESPN bit was funny? I was cringing through that whole skit.
Weekend update was still the funniest part of the show, and I'm surprised it didn't get mentioned.
Ok-am I the only one who decided that the po-tay-toe chip skit was an homage to Tennessee Williams? Overwrought southern characters, bow ties and ridiculously dramatic pauses? I'm sure there were some homosexual undertones in there somewhere...
Yeah, I liked the potato chip sketch too, it was just one of those sketches where I didn't see where it was going, and stuff that takes me by surprise is always funnier than stuff I can see coming. I thought Lively generally did a decent job, although she wasn't as front and center as some hosts get.
Most of it was painfully unfunny, and a lot of the skits just dragged on and on. The Weekend Update was the only saving grace.
The show was a lot funnier than usual, because it was run much tighter.
But the potato chip sketch was not funny. Did you pay attention to the laughter? Only two parts were considered funny.
Its now racist to laugh at the Virgininica character? That's a frickin hoople headed statement right there.
I enjoy Blake Lively but SNL has horrible skits and I didn't find anything special in the skits above.
The two that made me laugh were the ones they discredited as being funny. The 'Shy Ronnie' and Rihanna skit was awesome. And so was the ESPN skit AKA Tiger VS his Nordic blooded wife skit.
The Potato chip skit was horrible. It lacked HUMOR. What's funny about a man and a woman being pissed about someone stealing a potato chip and forcing him to spit it out? That's just gross.
The skits that were shown above just lacked comedy.
Great job summing up everything for us, Perez Hilton.
I thought the potato chip sketch was hilarious! May I remind you that comedy is subjective? :) Or would you mind laying out the science for us, Brooke?
Fuuny show. The potato chip sketch was hilarious, so random. I feel bad for boring people who didn't like that one. Great review.